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Webster 1913 Edition


Fluting

Flut′ing

,
Noun.
Decoration by means of flutes or channels; a flute, or flutes collectively;
as, the
fluting
of a column or pilaster; the
fluting
of a lady’s ruffle.
Fluting iron
,
a laundry iron for fluting ruffles; – called also
Italian iron
, or
gaufering iron
.
Knight.
Fluting lathe
,
a machine for forming spiral flutes, as on balusters, table legs, etc.

Webster 1828 Edition


Fluting

FLU'TING

,
ppr.
Channeling; cutting furrows; as in a column.

FLU'TING

,
Noun.
A channel or furrow in a column; fluted work.

Definition 2024


fluting

fluting

English

Verb

fluting

  1. present participle of flute

Noun

fluting (plural flutings)

Two wooden dowels with lengthwise fluting.
  1. (architecture) A decoration consisting of parallel, normally vertical, flutes (grooves) incised into the surface
  2. The act of making such grooves

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